poverty

Repairers of the Breach: The people’s shelter

By Glenn Oviatt. Published Thursday, April 29th, 2010

“Praise the Lord, it’s good to see you!” someone exclaims as a woman walks through the front door of the Repairers of the Breach homeless shelter.
Her name is Dorothy Jackson, the former manager of the shelter, and she has come to gather members of the Breach choir for the Saturday afternoon rehearsal next door in [...]

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A not so uncanny encounter

By Brooke McEwen. Published Thursday, September 24th, 2009

After a semester abroad, I returned to Marquette and found campus just as I had left it last fall. Well, minus the addition of a new building or two, but the sights and sounds of freshmen move-in and the smell of the tannery (love it or hate it) brought back a slew of unchanging memories. [...]

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